Several X users made posts with such pictures, and on April 24, 2024, the blog Dispatches from Trumpland posted photographs of one such rally, which reportedly took place in Pennsylvania. The same blog had another post about Trump and diapers on April 11.
According to the posts, Trump supporters began to appear at rallies donning diapers and holding signs that said "Real Men Wear Diapers." Some of them reportedly nicknamed the former president "Diaper Don," and one woman wore a sweater that said "Diapers Over Dems." We found some of the clothes they wore for sale, though we weren't able to establish when those designs were posted for purchase it may have been after the purported trend went viral.
We noticed that the photographs that circulated all came from Dispatches from Trumpland, so we contacted the writers of the blog to ask for more details about the rallies. The writer replied that the photographs posted on April 11 had been taken at rallies in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Detroit. He added that he took the photographs in the April 24 post himself, in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
He also shared an article from the Greensboro News & Record, published March 2, 2024, that included a photograph of a man it identified as Alfredo Alcala, who wore a red T-shirt that said "Real Men Wear Diapers."
A sex discrimination lawsuit against Donald Trumps campaign has triggered new accusations that Trumps lawyers have intentionally covered up settlement payments to women, in violation of federal law.
On Friday, watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, demanding an investigation into the alleged cover-up. The complaint cites new allegations from 2016 Trump campaign aide A.J. Delgado, which she lodged in a sworn court declaration earlier this week as part of her ongoing discrimination suit against Trumps political operation.
Delgados filing presented evidence of top Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz openly admitting that the campaign wanted to use a law firm to cover up a potential settlement payout in 2017. The arrangement, as Delgado described it, appears specifically designed to evade the consequences of federal disclosure laws that require campaigns to publicly report the identities of payment recipients.
In other words, the payment would be routed through a middleman, to hide the fact that the Campaign had settled, from the public and the FEC, Delgado stated. I thus have direct, personal experience with the Defendant-Campaign hiding settlement payments to women, routing them through a middleman law firm, which to the public would only appear as payments for legal services.
Delgado also claimed to have information and reason to believe that other campaign payments have hidden settlements with women who raised complaints of gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, and sexual harassment. Those payments, she said, are related to the $4.1 million that flowed to Kasowitzs law firm over a two-month period immediately following the November 2020 election, as well as millions in mysterious legal reimbursements to the campaigns compliance firm, Red Curve Solutions, which The Daily Beast first reported earlier this month, prompting a federal complaint.
The declaration is particularly significant in that it captures a direct admission of the campaigns actual intentions behind this middleman arrangementto keep the existence of a settlement from the public, and, by doing so, from the FEC itself.
In a statement to The Daily Beast, CREW president Noah Bookbinder demanded an investigation, saying that Delgados allegations raise serious concerns about a potentially illegal cover-up.
The allegations made in AJ Delgados declaration paint a deeply troubling picture of potentially illegal activity carried out by Donald Trumps campaign. The FEC must conduct an investigation to determine the validity of these claims and establish the degree to which any wrongdoing occurred, Bookbinder said.
I was wrong. Israel came 2nd in the televote. The jurors still blocked them tho.Who came in first place?
Don't know much about Keffals but tag for laterFrom what I understand, Keffals has been getting a lot of heat lately for various things. Even transgender activists and leftists have completely turned their backs on her for the stuff she's said most recently.
I don't always watch Mutahar's stuff but I do enjoy his videos. Love it when he goes hard on someone
I heard he ran a pretty good social media campaign and appealed to the younger voters.It doesn't help that the generation who hated Marcos mostly died off. That being said, at least Bongbong is not as incompetent as Duterte when it comes to China.
Clearly Trump and Biden are the same though, or so the enlightened centrists keep telling me.The enlightened online leftists can join them too on that front.
Up.
Democrats are outraising Republicans in general this year. That's not going to translate to wins everywhere but it definitely helps.Agreed. Every little bit helps in raising voter turnout.
Imagine if Gavi is allowed to come backWho's Gavi?
Donald Trumps 2020 campaign called itself a juggernaut in May of that year, on par with a planet-destroying Death Star that was firing on all cylinders.
Trumps 2024 campaign has traded Star Wars metaphors for talk of a leaner and more efficient operation, with less real estate, fewer employees and greater dependence on outside groups.
Were focused on quality over quantity. I mean, how novel a concept, top strategist Chris LaCivita told the crowd of top donors May 4 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., according to attendees.
The shift comes as President Bidens campaign and its allies, buoyed by incumbency, have been moving in the opposite direction, building a more expansive operation sooner than in 2020. Strategists for both major parties expect Democrats to raise and spend more than Republicans over the coming months, a dynamic that has been magnified by the significant legal costs Trumps fundraising apparatus has absorbed to defend him in state and federal courts.
The situation has alarmed GOP officials in key states like Arizona, Georgia and Michigan, who have yet to receive promised funding, staff or even briefings on the new plans since the Trump team took control of the Republican National Committee in March. An earlier party blueprint for a general election build-out has been discarded, party officials say. Plans to open new offices have been scuttled. Hiring has been slowed.
In order to win close elections in Georgia, you have to have a ground game that emphasizes turning out early votes and absentee votes, said Cody Hall, a senior adviser to Gov. Brian Kemp (R). I have seen no evidence of them having any of that. The Trump campaign has a consultant in Georgia, but there is nothing else that I can see. Everyone is generally concerned.
The original RNC plan for the state of Georgia, reviewed by The Washington Post, called for hiring 12 regional field directors in April and 40 field organizers by the end of May, in addition to eventually opening 20 offices and a community center in the College Park, a mostly Black suburb of Atlanta. Arizona was slotted to receive six regional field directors, seven offices and 23 field organizers by the end of May. Party leaders had drafted similar road maps for other battleground states before Ronna McDaniel was replaced as chairwoman.
The RNCs plan at the start of this year was also focused on early voting, the plans show, though the Bank Your Vote website once the centerpiece of the effort has been offline for weeks as the party retools the program. It is full speed ahead, said James Blair, the national political director for both the Trump campaign and the RNC. Stay tuned for more on the program.
Arizona GOP chairwoman Gina Swoboda called RNC Chairman Michael Whatley on Monday to raise concerns that Arizona was not getting enough resources, according to three people familiar with the call, who like others for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions.
Top party officials reassured her that resources would be coming to the state. The AZGOP and the RNC are joined at the hip. Together, we are 110% focused on sending President Trump back to the White House and saving our country, Swoboda said in a statement Tuesday.
Others in the state remain concerned.
There is no sign of life, said Kim Owens, a Republican operative and public relations professionalin Arizona. Especially in a state that Trump lost so closely last time, youd expect to have more of a presence. I would think, Lets step it up. I think its a terrible mistake.
In Michigan, some of the states operatives and Republican lawmakers have grown concerned about a lack of an operation there, according to four people familiar with the matter, even as they feel generally bullish about the state. Pete Hoekstra, the chairman of the state party, declined to discuss staffing and hiring but praised Trumps team overall. We are light-years ahead of where we were in 2016, he said.
Trumps top advisers say concerns over their plans are unfounded and uninformed.
Its a different operation that is built by people who win races and have won races, LaCivita said in an interview. As it relates to 2020, they did things their way. Some worked. A lot didnt. But that was then, and this is now.
Since taking over the party in March, Trumps new team says it has reviewed the 2020 operation to identify waste and redundancies. Officials say they have decided not to hire separate political, communications and research operations at the campaign and the national party complaining that in 2020, the RNC and campaign clashed and said the RNC has improved the data operation to better target voters.
Trumps aides say they will build a more narrowly targeted volunteer field program using their successful effort in the Iowa caucuses as a template while taking advantage of a recent Federal Election Commission ruling that will allow them to directly coordinate message and script plans with outside groups who have paid canvassing such as door-knocking. The operation is being run by LaCivita, Blair and Alex Latcham, a former White House deputy political director for Trump.
Sadly none of the protestors will be charged for anything relating to the custodians.Not all of the protesters were responsible for traumatizing these custodians. Many are actually innocent and should not be prosecuted for expressing their right to free speech.
No but as a mixed race Filipino dude, I'd love to.I didn't know you were Filipino too.
NEW YORK A prominent transit union leader plans to sue Columbia University over alleged mistreatment of school staffers during a building seizure last week the latest labor group to wade into the debate surrounding campus unrest.
John Samuelsen, international president of the Transport Workers Union which represents 155,000 workers across the airline, transit, railroad, universities, utilities and service sectors castigated Columbia President Minouche Shafik for waiting too long to authorize the NYPD to clear out Hamilton Hall after demonstrators occupied it last Tuesday night.
Its on them to protect their workforce and they didnt do it, Samuelsen told POLITICO. He called dissidents behavior toward staffers working at the time of the takeover, including two custodians and a security officer, an outrageous affront to working people.
One of the unions local branches represents 725 workers at Columbia, including custodians, security officers and electricians.
Officials should have known the building was a target given its history as the site of an occupation by students advocating for racial justice in the 1960s, he charged.
Were exploiting every legal means at our disposal against Columbia, against the individual occupiers of the building [who] thought that they could hold our custodians hostage to their ideology, he added.
The union honcho, who also represents the 44,000-member Transport Workers Union Local 100, insisted he supports students constitutional right to protest.
Samuelsen repeated a claim to which Mayor Eric Adams has been clinging since police officers responded to protests at Columbia and City College: that outside agitators snuck into student encampments and exacerbated tensions.
The NYPD arrested 109 protesters at Columbia and 173 at City College. The mayor has continued to defend the timing of police officers response.
A Columbia spokesperson declined to comment on Samuelsens legal threat.
An organizer for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group that was behind the encampment but was not involved in the takeover of Hamilton, told POLITICO they could not speak to the actions committed by or words said by the autonomous group of students who occupied Hamilton.
The vast majority of individuals involved were peaceful and only had the intention of being peaceful and treating people with respect, said the organizer, who was granted anonymity, adding that its the first time theyre hearing about the allegations.
The move represents a significant escalation by one of the most politically active unions in New York state, as Shafik and Adams deal with political fallout from the NYPDs crackdown on protests on campuses. The union has not shied from picking fights with powerful Democrats Samuelson recently launched an attack ad against Gov. Kathy Hochul amid an ongoing disagreement over a union contract.
In a letter to Shafik late Monday morning, Samuelsen urged the president to provide the names of the protesters arrested inside Hamilton Hall, access to footage from the building and information the NYPD gave to Columbia on the number of students who participated in the demonstration as well as outside actors.
He also wants to meet with Shafik and discuss steps to ensure workers safety if the protests resume, as well as compensation for affected union members.
When the custodians told the demonstrators that they wanted to get out of the building, at least one smarmy, sanctimonious, elitist ... occupier in a reference to the Gaza protests and takeover of Hamilton told them they would not be able to exit premises because this moment is bigger than you, Samuelsen alleged in the letter.
The custodians had to then fight their way toward one of the barricaded exits to escape, he said.
The security officer, an African American woman, managed to slip out before the barricades were set up, Samuelsen added. But shes still shaken by her run-in with the demonstrators who verbally attacked her in a very aggressive and extremely offensive manner, he said.
Labor unions have been increasingly weighing in on turmoil afflicting institutions across the country. Shawn Fain, president of United Auto Workers, blasted the mass arrests. Other unions have called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
The Professional Staff Congress, the City University of New Yorks faculty and staff union, on Monday requested that CUNY Chancellor Flix Matos Rodrguez ask Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to drop charges against students and employees.
CUNY faculty recently staged a strike in support of the protest, but the union did not authorize or support it.
I really hope this trend continues and the GOP continues to get rektI agree. All of us need to do our part and help ensure that the Democrats win big.
20-50 points goddamnAnd these are percentages, mind you.
https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1787860094610260229?t=rr-pDB1e4kqFRAhwU9NZSA&s=19Oh.
Supposedly this guy was a hardcore trumper who got duped the same way guys fall for strippers and escorts.
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.Or rather evil will triumph because a portion of good refuses to do anything effective like voting.
The Florida trial was a lost cause. It's the one that would hurt him the most but once it fell into the hands of a MAGA cult member it was dead in the water.And she probably wouldn't have gotten the position if Trump wasn't president. This is precisely why voting against Republicans matters the most.
https://twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/1787933570373152787Oh.
The other night I was thinking that Trump was going to pick Noem anyway because he likes people who show "strength," and he would see someone who would do something so horrid and not bat an eye at it as "strong."If that happens, then I hope the Democrats turn out the vote so massive that almost every race is a win for them.
I'm almost willing to bet that she'll be the VP pick. And if that happens, that's the END for Trump's campaign. People won't vote for a puppy-killer. And many Republicans will stay home over the fact that a woman would take over if Fanta Fascist were "unable to continue his duties as President."
Did the topic die again!? Argh.Sadly enough, it did. I should have paid better attention to it.